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Investigation: popular analytics platform Sensor Tower has used VPN and ad-blocking apps on iOS and Android with 35M+ downloads to quietly collect data on users — Sensor Tower, a popular analytics platform for tech developers and investors, has been secretly collecting data from millions …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing a feature to allow accounts to cross-post Stories from Facebook to Instagram — Facebook's latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps …
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon tells its employees in the Bay Area, New York, New Jersey, Seattle/Bellevue, and the Lombardy region/Asti province of Italy to work from home until April — Amazon has told employees in two major markets—New York and New Jersey—to stay home until at least the end …
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Judge's legal opinion unsealed Friday sided with Amazon in lawsuit over Trump's intervention in the JEDI contract process, saying Amazon's key argument is sound — A legal opinion unsealed Friday indicates what the ruling may be in a high-stakes lawsuit over the Pentagon's JEDI cloud| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Source: Apple will give retail and hourly workers unlimited sick leave if they show COVID-19-like symptoms and will not require a doctor's note for the time off — In addition to offering many of its employees the ability to work from home this week, Apple is also taking steps to ensure … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix, a payments startup it recently funded, as it walks away from deal over alleged conflicts of interest with Stripe — In the world of venture capital, where trust between investors and founders is paramount to the success of both …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked iOS 14 code shows Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 will include an “Infograph Pro” watch face with tachymeter, Schooltime mode for kids, sleep tracking — 9to5Mac exclusively reported over the weekend that Apple Watch will gain the ability to detect blood oxygen saturation …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Nasdaq closes down 7.29% and S&P 500 down 7.6% extending last week's selloff, with Apple plunging 7.9%, Microsoft 6.8%, Facebook 6.4%, and Amazon 5.3% — - Apple lost $100 billion in value on Monday, while Microsoft's market cap plunged by $83.6 billion
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Apple now says it's OK to use disinfectant wipes to clean “nonporous surfaces of your Apple product, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces” — - Apple now says it's OK to use Clorox Disinfecting Wipes and other disinfectants to clean your iPhone and other Apple gadgets.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Iran's official app for tracking COVID-19 infections removed from Play Store; sources: app was likely removed due to misleading claims about detecting COVID-19 — Google removes Iran's official COVID-19 detection app from the Play Store. — Google has removed today an Android app … | Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood says it's investigating the cause of its third major outage in two weeks, which affected equities, crypto, and options trading until late in the day — Free stock trading pioneer Robinhood is experiencing another major outage, keeping clients on the sidelines of a major day for stocks.| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details techniques of ransomware including REvil, Samas, Doppelpaymer, Bitpaymer, and Ryuk, which are manually controlled by humans, not automated — Ransomware attackers are using common tools to take down big enterprise with ‘human-operated’ attacks.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Twitter applied its “manipulated media” label for the first time, after a clipped video of Joe Biden was tweeted by a White House official, retweeted by Trump — It's the first time the social network has enforced a new policy to fight doctored videos and photos
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Misinformation about coronavirus persists on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, despite the companies' efforts to stop misleading posts by working with health orgs — Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information …
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